ories of crowns, and in one of these stories she
imagined herself to be in the great hall of the castle at Chinon, in
the midst of the barons, receiving a crown from the hand of an angel
to give it to her King.[2245] This was true in a spiritual sense, for
she had taken Charles to his anointing and to his coronation. Jeanne
was not quick to grasp the distinction between two kinds of truth. She
may, nevertheless, have doubted the material reality of this vision.
She may even have held it to be true in a spiritual sense only. In any
case, she had of her own accord promised Saint Catherine and Saint
Margaret not to speak of it to her judges.[2246]

[Footnote 2244: _Legenda Aurea_, ed. 1846, pp. 789 _et seq._]

[Footnote 2245: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 120-122.]

[Footnote 2246: _Ibid._, p. 90.]

"Saw you any angel above the King?"

She refused to reply.[2247]

[Footnote 2247: _Ibid._, p. 56.]

This time nothing more was said of the crown. Maitre Jean Beaupere
asked Jeanne if she often heard the Voice.

"Not a day passes without my hearing it. And it is my stay in great
need."[2248]

[Footnote 2248: _Ibid._, vol. iii, p. 57.]

She never spoke of her Voices without describing them as her refuge
and relief, her consolation and her joy. Now all theologians agreed in
believing that good spirits when they depart leave the soul filled
with joy, with peace, and with comfort, and as proof they cited the
angel's words to Zacharias and Mary: "Be not afraid."[2249] This
reason, however, was not strong enough to persuade clerks of the
English party that Voices hostile to the English were of God.

[Footnote 2249: Jean Brehal, _Memoires et consultations en faveur de
Jeanne d'Arc_, ed. Lanery d'Arc, p. 409.]

And the Maid added: "Never have I required of them any other final
reward than the salvation of my soul."[2250]

[Footnote 2250: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 57.]

The examination ended with a capital charge: the attack on Paris on a
feast day. It was in this connection possibly that Brother Jacques of
Touraine, a friar of the Franciscan order, who from time to time put a
question, asked Jeanne whether she had ever been in a place where
Englishmen were being slain.

"In God's name, was I ever in such a place?" Jeanne responded
vehemently. "How glibly you speak. Why did they not depart from France
and go into their own country?"

A nobleman of England, who was in the chamber, on hearing these words,
said to his neighbours: "B